inner compulsion Quotes

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Music feels like a six sense to me, and it's never been just a hobby. It's something that I have to do to breathe. It's an extension of who I am.

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.